Gate to Walmart/Aldi's/BJ's
 

Is there any truth that the gate on the historic side will be permanently closed due to the state not wanting any golf cart traffic due to the new BJ's opening up?

So, where did you pick up this news tidbit?

Trolling

Costo's
 

Gate will be closed after Costo's opens

Use the gate all the time, but not for the three stores mentioned. We call it the gate to Lowels and WaWa for ethanol free gas.

I did hear TV wants us all to stay inside TV at all times with any golfcart except for the street legal carts which can cross Hwy 441.
I for one will miss going to Walmart if that gate is closed.

Not a state road - nice try.

State road?

What kind of road is 27 in Florida?
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U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Florida is a north–south United States Highway.

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You are 100% correct about Rt 27/441. Only problem is you are on the wrong street for the subject of this thread.

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That gate doesn't open to US 27. What does 27 have to do with it?

There are 1-2 other developments that golf carts come from to use these plazas. There is a path next to Walmart and one behind Dollar Tree just not sure if they are from the same development or not. I can’t believe this would be supported by anyone.

Why ask on a social media forum? It is only speculation and rumor so you won't get the information you're searching for here.

Someone pointed out that BJs put in many many golf cart parking spaces so a locked gate does not make sense. At most maybe opening week until the crowds slow down. It is a block away from the state road.

Gate?
 

Where is this gate you speak of? I'm new to Chatam, would love to get to BJs and Walmart by cart without going all the way to the bridge at Spanish Springs.

The gate is off Paradise dr. between 2 houses. It's in the middle of the picture; the path going towards the Urology place. That street leads all the way to Lowes, Aldi and Walmart. A little tricky at first, but worth finding out about!

If you have gone that route to Walmart then you have been through that gate.

Someone at BJ told me those are for Stonecrest subdivision people only.

Stonecrest has a gate that gives access to Walmart, Dollar Tree, and some other places.

You can only legally cross 441 @ SE 175th St the entrance to Spruce Creek South. The the Law!!

Come over the golf cart bridge stay left. Once you pass the Boone Gate look ������ on the left. After the ninth home see the trail on the left to the gate which hasn’t been working for 3 days.

Nobody ripped it apart this time.. I think it wore out from to much use. It’s going to be a parade once BJ’s opens. Have patience while waiting in line at the gate and don’t forget your gate card because there is no Red Button to push.

If they do, I would just laugh and laugh about it. The whole gate thing was and has always been stupid. It was TV pushing their weight …..

The “path”. keeps getting longer and further out of the Village. Carts were
trespassing on Duke property. Carts are suppose to stay on Villages property.

Call District Property Management 352-753-4022. They will tell you whether it’s true or not.

Duke transferred ownership and liability of the path over to Marion County before it was paved. You are not trespassing using the path.

Where do people get their crap info from?

Both Property Mgt or Villages Commercial Property Mgt had no idea that anything was happening to the gate - a person at Comm. Mgt. said he would check and get back to me???

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Social Media !

You’re funny.

Hahaha

This is a great place to get accurate info???

IMO that gate needs removed just like Berlin Wall was. Goodwill to or neighbors:welcome:

I see carts crossing at Avenida central to wales Pl. there no signs that says “no carts beyond this point”, didn’t notice they was LSVs?

Gate closure is false news
 

Who is Terrie Empfield ?

Who da man?

I was there 2 days ago and it was working fine. In fact, I saw a guy stopped on "our" side of the gate, stopping golf cart drivers to ask them about this very same thing, and he said he read about it on Nextdoor. If that was you in the Boston baseball cap, OP, then I told you then, that the State has no say-so in what does or does not happen to our gate. The road it leads to isn't a state road, the gate isn't a state-regulated gate. It leads to the back-road that starts at the alternative-medicine building at the gate, to the Stonecrest Gate past Walmart and the Dollar Store and all that.

Part of it is only accessible via golf cart - including the gate itself, and the path from Aldi's to Walmart (which has a side-path to a Stonecrest golf-cart gate).

I don't know why anyone would actually stand there beside his golf cart asking everyone if they'd heard about this and if it was true, when a simple phone call to the Villages Community Watch (which oversees the gate) would have given them the answer.